Portland Mayor Sam Adams called Beau Breedlove 33 times when the younger man was 17 -- far more contact than Adams has acknowledged having with the teenager.

Adams has said that his contact with Breedlove, with whom he had a sexual relationship, was infrequent and that Breedlove pursued him.

Adams' phone records show he made most of the calls to Breedlove in the weeks after they met in March 2005. Three months later Breedlove turned 18, the age of consent in Oregon. The records don't show when Breedlove made calls to Adams.

The Oregonian has recently reviewed Adams' phone bills and calendars as part of a series of requests to the city under the state's public records law.

These records and interviews show that the Adams-Breedlove relationship grew earlier than previously known. Both Adams and Breedlove declined to comment.

Adams is under an Oregon Department of Justice investigation after admitting in January that he and Breedlove -- who is 24 years younger -- had a sexual relationship and then lied about it.

For more than 16 months, Adams had denied having a sexual relationship with the teenaged Breedlove. But Jaquiss had turned up new evidence.

What follows is a 38-minute recording of that interview, during which Adams lies repeatedly and evades questions about Breedlove. Four days after this interview, Adams admitted he and Breedlove did have a sexual relationship.

Willamette Week has not made the entire interview public. Adams' staff, however, made their own recording of the interview, and The Oregonian obtained it under the state's public records law.

The recording opens with Zusman speaking. Other people speaking during the interview include Adams' press spokesman at the time, Wade Nkrumah, a former reporter for The Oregonian; and Amy Ruiz, an Adams staff member who had investigated the Adams-Breedlove story while she worked as reporter for the Portland Mercury.

WARNING: This recording contains explicit language that some may find objectionable.

Timeline of calls between Sam Adams and Beau Breedlove

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Other records raise new questions about Breedlove's story.

Adams has said that Breedlove had just turned 18 when the two had sex. Breedlove tells the same story. And he adds a detail: that the two kissed in a City Hall men's room after a First Thursday event June 2, 2005, when Breedlove was 17.

But Adams' calendar shows that he was in New York on vacation that week.

State criminal investigators have interviewed one person whose account suggests a different timeline for the City Hall encounter.

A former City Hall security officer told investigators that during a First Thursday event earlier in 2005, another guard reported discovering Adams and a young man in the second-floor men's room.

Glenn Clark says he told investigators that he was working City Hall's first-floor security desk while another guard, Jacoby Demissie, was stationed on the second floor. Clark was surprised when Demissie walked downstairs, stopping about 10 feet from him.

Clark recalled that Demissie told him "in a flat tone something to the effect of: 'I just saw Sam Adams having sex with this younger guy in the bathroom,'" Clark said in a statement.

"I cannot be certain of exactly what Demissie said," Clark said in the signed and notarized statement, which he gave to investigators and The Oregonian. "But the way Demissie made the statement made it clear to me that Adams and the younger man were doing more than kissing or making out."

Because Demissie mentioned that the other man was young, Clark said, Clark was concerned that the young man might be underage. Clark said Demissie told him it didn't look that way.

"I worried about the younger man's safety because it was my job to be concerned about everyone's safety in the building," Clark said. "I figured no one was in danger and did not visit the second-floor bathroom to check it out."

Clark told The Oregonian that he didn't record Demissie's report in that evening's incident log. A check of the log confirms that.

Clark's account has problems.

First, Demissie told The Oregonian that the incident never happened. Second, Breedlove described a security guard who found him and Adams in the men's room that night as an older white man. Demissie is young and African American. And the date doesn't fit Breedlove's account.

Other records suggest Clark's story is plausible.

If Adams was in New York in June, as his calendar says, Breedlove's account of the timing couldn't be right.

When he spoke to The Oregonian, Clark said the incident would have happened before mid-April when he left the contract security firm, DePaul Security. He also recalled that he worked with Demissie that night and that Demissie had shown up to work late.

A review of City Hall security logs for April 7, 2005, shows that Clark and Demissie both worked during the First Thursday event and that Demissie arrived about the time Clark remembered. This was the only First Thursday event Clark and Demissie worked together after Adams and Breedlove met.

Demissie did confirm parts of Clark's account: that he was routinely assigned to the second floor of City Hall for First Thursday events and that he used the men's room on that floor while on duty. The security log for that night also shows Demissie assigned to the second floor.

Clark has gone back to work for DePaul Security but says he hasn't worked City Hall since 2005.

Post-scandal activities

The outcome of the state Department of Justice investigation could come down to the word of Adams and Breedlove, both of whom acknowledge lying in the past about their relationship.

Breedlove, now 21, could become a problematic witness should Adams be charged. After saying he wanted to maintain his privacy, Breedlove gave a nationally televised interview, posed for a gay erotic magazine, signed autographs at an adult video store in Portland and served as a judge for a sexually explicit contest at a Portland doughnut shop.

Adams, 45, has tried to move past the controversy, working on high-profile deals such as Portland's Rose Quarter, the new Columbia River bridge and a proposed convention center hotel.

Meanwhile, the mayor's office has been distracted by the ongoing investigations by the state and the media.

The Oregonian and other news agencies flooded City Hall with records requests after Adams' admission Jan. 19. Officials have provided the newspaper access to hundreds of pages of spending records and a dozen archived boxes from Adams' years as a city commissioner.

The mayor's office also released a recording of an interview Willamette Week had with Adams four days before he admitted the truth about Breedlove. The recording shows Adams repeatedly lying and evading questions put to him by the newspaper.

What the records show

The records fill in some blanks in the Adams-Breedlove relationship.

Adams and Breedlove probably first met at the state Capitol on March 24, 2005. At the time, Breedlove worked as an intern for state Rep. Kim Thatcher, a Keizer Republican.

Adams' calendar for that date shows he had meetings with two Democratic legislators whose offices were near or next to Thatcher's office. Breedlove gave Adams his phone number through another person.

Breedlove told The Oregonian that Adams sought him out about a week later. Adams' cell phone records show that he called Thatcher's office March 31 and that the call lasted three minutes. The records show that Adams then called Breedlove's cell phone twice later that afternoon.

Adams personally gave The Oregonian his phone records and blacked out what he said were personal calls except for those to Breedlove. The billings don't show the source of incoming calls, nor do they provide a record of text messages.

Adams made most of the calls between March 31 and May 9, and many lasted just one minute.

Adams made fewer calls in May and June but kept in touch, including soon after he was scheduled to return from his New York vacation.

According to Adams' calendar, his flight home was scheduled to arrive at 8 p.m. June 4, 2005. Portland International Airport records say the plane arrived at 7:39 p.m.

Adams' phone records show the first calls he made after the flight arrived were to Breedlove's cell phone and the home of Breedlove's mother.

Adams also called Breedlove on June 25 -- the day Breedlove turned 18.